Reflections Seen in a Darkened Mirror

"Of course, the nature of mass movements is a blunting of subtleties, and a winnowing down of theology to the most easily understood denominator."

via tlttlotd

"Once again, Hollywood predicts reality: Samsung and the University of Korea have invented a robotic machine gun nest that uses a pair of video cameras (one visible spectrum, one infrared) slaved to a pattern and outline recognition system to track targets, warn them, and open fire on them if they don't stop advancing. From the images in the article, there seems to be no countermeasures against paintball guns, eggs, mudpies, or someone crawling lower than the machine gun can pan."

According to the article, "It has a sophisticated pattern recognition which can detect the difference between humans and trees, and a 5.5mm machine-gun. The robot also has a speaker to warn the intruder to surrender or get a perfect headshot." So I would add to tlttlotd's comments that it also does not appear to have countermeasures against humans who may have disguised themselves as trees. In light of this, I would suggest the following motto be adopted by Samsung and emblazoned proudly upon each of the robotic gun nests:

"Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane"